Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen is the Chairman and Founder of E-LOAN^®, an online consumer direct lender dedicated to providing consumers with a Radically Simple^SM way to obtain mortgage, auto and home equity loans. Under Mr. Larsen's leadership, E-LOAN (Nasdaq: EELN) has originated over $25 billion in consumer loans. In June 2004, an independent study conducted by TRUSTe and The Ponemon Institute ranked E-LOAN as one of the top 20 most trusted companies for privacy in America. And in March 2005, E-LOAN received the overall highest rating in the independent Online Customer Respect Study of North America's largest financial services firms.

In 1996, Mr. Larsen founded E-LOAN based on the belief that by leveraging the Internet and building a company on a foundation of pro consumer values, the consumer lending experience could be completely revolutionized. In addition to using the Internet to make the lending process faster, easier and lower cost for consumers, Mr. Larsen has drawn upon pro consumer values to build E-LOAN into a trusted brand by taking radically pro consumer actions.

For example, E-LOAN became the first company to provide consumers with access to their FICO^® credit scores and to advocate credit score disclosure laws. In addition, Mr. Larsen and E-LOAN co-founded and financially backed Californians for Privacy Now (CFPN), a coalition credited for the passage of the strongest consumer financial privacy protection law in the nation. More recently, Mr. Larsen has been advocating that financial institutions disclose their offshore outsourcing programs to consumers and enable them to opt-out of them.

Prior to E-LOAN, Mr. Larsen served President of Palo Alto Funding Group, the mortgage brokerage he co-founded in 1992 and E-LOAN's predecessor company. Prior to business school, Mr. Larsen held positions at Chevron Corporation and NASA Ames Research Center. Mr. Larsen holds an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University, where he was named the 2004 Alumnus of the Year.